Can small businesses help reduce employment exclusion?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 869-884

  Kitching, John ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; MARGINALIZATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIAL POLICY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846461376     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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